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This is the part of the website where you will find itinerary suggestions for various types of trips, story ideas, information on Cape Town, beautiful high-res images and videos and our latest destination and company news. This is also where you submit a request for a trade FAM trip and media hosting. Cape Town Tourism has dedicated PR and travel trade teams that are ready and keen to assist you with your queries.
Experiences
Land-Based Adventure
Cape Town has a multitude of diverse and unique land-based experiences
Water-based Activities
Water is an intrinsic part of the Cape Town experience. Explore all our water-based experiences.
Air-Based Aventures
Take to the air with Cape Town’s amazing diversity of air-based adventures.
NEWS FROM CAPE TOWN TOURISM
Tourism SMMEs and students to benefit from partnership
Cape Town Tourism and Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Tourism and Events Management (CPUT), have partnered to empower and uplift the tourism industry by cross-pollinating skills development between Small, Medium and Micro‐sized Enterprises (SMMEs) and students.
Tsogo Sun pops the cork on celebrations!
The pop of the cork is a welcoming and evocative sound wherever a celebration is taking place – birthdays, anniversaries, engagements, weddings, graduations, or promotions, or even just because it’s a Friday afternoon, are all reason enough to indulge in Champagne
Hop on City Sightseeing’s new Cape Explorer offering, the Cape Winelands Tour
Cape Town, 2017 — The Cape Winelands of Stellenbosch and Franschhoek are renowned for their beauty, history and award-winning wines.…
The Cellars-Hohenort undergoes luxury room refurbishments
The 5-star Cellars-Hohenort hotel in Cape Town’s Constantia valley is currently undergoing a series of upgrades to many of its…
Fair Trade Tourism launches new membership programme
Fair Trade Tourism has launched a new membership programme for small tourism businesses that need support with their sustainability measures…
CTT educationals – getting to know our members
Over the past month, the CTT team had the privilege to experience a vast range of products including venturing outdoors…
Request for Proposals – Print productions Cape Town Visitors Guide 2018
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS PRINT PRODUCTION OF THE OFFICIAL CAPE TOWN VISITORS GUIDE 2018 Released: 10 July 2017Second Release: 17 July…
Cape Town works hard to counter the impact of seasonality
Cape Town buzzes with thousands of international and domestic tourists from about November to April, with a particular visitor frenzy…
Maboneng Township Art Experience is going to New York
During WTM Africa last year, CTT connected two US journalists with Palesa Ngwenya from Maboneng Township Art Experience, one of…
STORY & ITINERARY IDEAS
Cape Town leading The Gin Revolution
An eruption of boutique gin distilleries, brands and bars are popping up all over the world, and Cape Town is…
Cape Town as a Sustainable Destination
Cape Town’s tourism industry has been at the forefront of responsible tourism practices, with Cape Town Tourism signing the Responsible…
Three world-class wine routes within Cape Town
While the famous Cape winelands stretch all the way to Stellenbosch, Paarl, Franschhoek and Elgin, Cape Town itself boasts with three…
Cape Town Tourism’s Hello Weekend Campaign
In Cape Town there is always something on, every weekend of the year, no matter what type of weekend person…
Cape Town’s Top 10 Attractions
Cape Town has a vast amount of things to see, but the top 10 major iconic attractions that remain at…
Enver Duminy: on transformation and reinvention in the tourism industry
Cape Town Tourism CEO, Enver Duminy, has a proven track record when it comes to championing transformation in the industry…
Traveling like a Local through Cape Town’s quirky neighbourhoods
Increasingly travellers are wanting to immerse themselves in the culture of the places and spaces they visit. Cape Town’s variety…
Cape Town’s rise as a premier Foodie Destination
Cape Town is the undisputed gourmet capital of the continent, and ranks with the finest on the globe when it…
Cape Town Becoming a Contemporary Art Hub
With the opening of the eagerly-awaited Zeitz MOCAA in September 2017; the spotlight is on Cape Town as a significant…
Accolades
Cape Town is one of the leading destinations in the world, and below are a selection of the awards and accolades that the city has received over the last couple of years:
2018
- Greatest City in the World – Telegraph Travel Readers Award
- Top 10 surf cities in the world by Surfer Magazine
- Top city in Africa for business tourism events by the International Congress and Convention Association (5th year in a row)
2017
- Fodor’s Go List 2017
- #2 – Best in Travel 2017 – Lonely Planet
- Western Cape voted Golf Destination of the Year, 2017 – Africa and Gulf States International Association of Golf Tour Operators.
2016
- Conde Naste Readers’ Travel Awards 2016 for Best Overseas City for Restaurants & Bars
- Number One food city in the World – Condé Nast’s Reader’s Choice Awards
- Luxury City Destination of the Year – Travel Guide Africa & Middle East Awards 2016.